Sunday, 11 September 2016

The ruling Zanu-PF has pardoned its members and Government ministers
Nyasha Chikwinya, Abigail Damasane and Fred Moyo by setting aside
two-year suspensions imposed on the trio for being part of a cabal that
sought to oust President Mugabe in 2014.

The
Sunday Mail has established that Zanu-PF’s Politburo, which met in
Harare last week, also endorsed the lifting of five-year suspensions on
former Deputy Minister Tendai Savanhu, and Cdes Christopher Chigumba and
Noah Mangondo, making them eligible to hold party positions.

Zanu-PF’s Disciplinary Appeals and Reviews Committee of the Central
Committee (DARCC) presided over 17 appeals, with Cde Chikwinya (Women’s
Affairs Minister), her deputy Cde Damasane Moyo, and Mines and Mining
Development Deputy Minster Fred Moyo having their sentences reduced.Read part of the DARCC report: “Suspensions (on Cdes Chikwinya,
Damasane and Moyo have been) reduced from two years to one year eight
months. Suspensions therefore run from 1st January 2015 to 31st August
2016.The Committee considered that the three are working well within the party and are current Ministers of Government.”According to a Zanu-PF National Disciplinary Committee report seen by
The Sunday Mail, Cdes Savanhu, Chugumba and Mangondo (all Harare
province) are now free to hold any positions in the party.According to the report the trio was pardoned after showing commitment to Zanu-PF.“In the cases of Christopher Chigumba, Noah Mangondo, Tendai Savanhu
the committee received positive responses,” read part of the report.
“The said members were reported to be actively participating in party
events and were not linked to activities of the opposition parties. On
the basis of this feedback, the NDC thus recommends that the suspension
of the three members be lifted.”The NDC also heard the matters of Cdes Boniface Karoro, Killian Gwanetsa and Trainos Huruva.

“The NDC received a report from Masvingo province proposing that Cde
Killian Gwanetsa and Trainos Huruva fully serve their five year
suspensions.“The Committee has written back to the Province requesting that the
chairman be the one to sign off the correspondence and not the
provincial secretary for administration as was in this case.”On Cde Karoro, the NDC said it had received an adverse report and was awaiting further correspondence to make a determination.The cases of Cdes Renias Madende and Steven Ngwenya were referred to the National Disciplinary Committee.Members whose two-year suspensions were upheld until December 31,
2016 are Cdes Edmond Mkaratigwa, Cliff Manungo, Fadzai Mtabeni, Danisa
Mujere, Dorothy Mhangami, Sheilah Midzi, Theobold Takanayi, Simba
Zhuwake, Tariro Mangwende, Zhou Tafanana, Tariro Mtingwende, Renias
Madende, Stanford Mugari and Ndabezinhle Nyoni.DARCC, chaired by Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko, was set up on
President Mugabe’s directive to give an opportunity to party members who
felt hard done by disciplinary outcomes to appeal.sunday mail